Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-11
THE LATEST NEWS.

The Lincoln (Neb.) correspondent of the
Chicago Times asserts that three members of
the Nebraska Legislature informed him
that they were offered $4,000 by DR.. Bailey
to secure six votes for G. h. Van Wyck during
the late Senatorial contest.
-Beede & Day, Minneapolis lumber dealers,
assigned on the LIST Tho liabilities are var
iously estimated at from $4,000 to $780, 900;
assets unknown, but said by the firm to be
inadequate to meet the obligations. The cred
itors are mostly Minneapolis parties.
The District Court at Sioux City, on the
18th ult., signed an injunction against the only
wide-open saloon in tho city, known as the
Bank Exchange, and the saloon has closed.
During an o%ver-sunday visit of the ILL
nois Legislative Investigating Committee at
the Joliet Penitentiary a member of the COM
mittse delivered a temperance address to the
c%onvicts. In response to the inquiry, 800 con-
victs held up their right hands as victims of
whisky.
The town of South Boston, Halifax County,
Va, was visited by a destructive conflagration
on the LIST. The South Boston warehouse, j.
NJ. ~Carrington's factory, H. A. Edmondson's
storage warehouse, with 100000 pounds of
tobacco, and other storage houses, in all fiji
teen buildings and contents, were destroyed.
1t is estimated the loss ls about $4,000; in
surance, $SS,CO0.
"A Denver dispatch of the LIST says: For
some months past very hard feelings have ex-
listed between citizens of Leoti and Coronado,
two small towns in Wallace County, Kansas,
over the location of the county seat. Frank
J%onness, A. NJ. Barry, George Watkin, Emmett
Desming, Charles Coulter, Bill Rains and a
man named johnson left Leoti for Coronado.
Upon entering that town in u wagon they
noticed suspicious movements among
some of the citizens who were stand
ing on the pavement in front of one
of the stores. Coulter, Rains and johnson
sprang from the wagon and reached for their
revolvers. No sooner had the men touched
the ground than the party in front of the store
poured q volley from their six-shooters into
the men, instantly killing Coulter, Rains and
Johnson, and wounding Jones, Barry and
Watkins so that recovery is impossible. Tho
wounded men were taken to q hotel and cared
for. None of the murdcrers have yet been ar
rested, and there seems to be no officer in the
county that has any desire to attempt the
task. The dead bodies of the murdered men
were left in the street, the outlaws not allow
ing anyone to touch them.
THE President sent to tho Senate on the LIST
his message vetoing the bill for a public build
ing at Lafayette, Ind. 1t was referred to the
Committee on Grounds and Buildings. The
Committee on Privileges and Elections reported
back the credentials of Senators Stockbridge, of
Michigan, and T,urpie. of Indiana, together with
the protest of the two houses Of the In
The Senate then passed fifty seven pen
sion bills. The conference report on
the river and harbor bill was presented. As
it came from the House originally appropriated.
he said, ST. 6S, 900. AS it passed the Senate it
appropriated $40, $40, 900. AS now reported from
the conference committee it appropriated Sc, 913.-
500. The conference report was agreed to.
Other bills We're taken from the calendar and
passed as follows: The Senate bill to author-
ize the construction of a bridge across the
Missouri river ut or near Yankton; D. T.: The
settlers on Des Moines river lands in Iowa,
The bill for ascertaining and settling private
land claims in New Mexico, Arizona and Colo
rado was taken up and amended 80 as to make
1t applicable to other States. In the House the
bill making appropriations for the payment of
Mexican pensions was passed. 1t appropriates
S22,t0) 600 for the remainder of the current fiscal
year and s. 1880, 900 for the next fiscal year. The
conference report on the Indian appropriation
bill was submitted and agreed to, The rules
We're suspended and the deficiency appropria-
ton bill was taken up, amended and passed.
disagreement to the conference report on the
fisheries retaliatory bill was announced. In the
evening session a large number Of bills were
passed authorizing the construction of bridges.
among them the following: Across the Missouri
river ut Kansas City and at Omaha; across the
Mississippi river ut keokuk.